FLAGRANTLY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

flagrantly

adverb

Definition of flagrantly

as in grossly

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Recent Examples of flagrantly Embedded in the production of the show is the feeling of being trapped in a hall of mirrors; scenes are edited flagrantly, drowning the viewer in red herrings. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026 Time, not thriftily spent but flagrantly wasted at cards or the wheel, is brought to a standstill right at the moment of its greatest potentiality—this would have to be the ultimate payoff. — Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026 The figure’s legs in Moving My Chair (2019) are nearly twice the length of her torso, and here as in nearly every foot McNeely painted, toes are flagrantly flexed. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 White and Engelbert quickly acted to condemn online trolling, but stayed mostly quiet about the actual incident on the court where Thomas flagrantly fouled Clark. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026 Now, there are good reasons for this inevitability to get kicked down the road, specifically for JoAnne, who doesn’t trust Duncan and doesn’t want to break the law, at least not so flagrantly. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026 The vast majority of drivers stop speeding after one or two camera violations, but a small and extremely reckless group of super speeders flagrantly endanger themselves and everyone around them. — Mike Flynn, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026 At least four federal judges blocked some of those subpoenas as flagrantly illicit overreach. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 This has become a flagrantly abusive practice. — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026

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Written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, and directed by James Watkins, Clayface centers on a Hollywood movie star named Tom Hagen who is left grossly disfigured following a violent attack orchestrated by a Gotham mob boss.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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If Sid weren’t on the blocks as a doomed trading piece, then Flyte would have a case as the person most egregiously wronged by Taverner’s mistakes.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Most egregiously, the central bank began lending directly to the treasury.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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